Manu Quotes

Intelligence without counter-intelligence is useless.

Protection is not a principle but an expedient

Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

The president's priority is to protect the safety and security of the American people. That's the physical security of the American people as well as the prosperity of the American people.

Against … attack the existing peacetime forces of the Army and Navy in the Hawaiian islands, including their necessary munitions and supplies, are believed to be adequate. The success of our defense against this form of attack will depend almost wholly upon our not being totally surprised by the enemy, and will require an efficient intelligence service, not only in the Hawaiian Islands but elsewhere.

To preserve our security in a dangerous century, vigilance is not enough. National Intelligence must do more.

As enemies do not hurt these beings, when they are sheltered by their fortresses, even so foes can not injure a king who has taken refuge in his fort. Let that fort be well supplied with weapons, money, grain and beasts of burden, with Brahmanas, with artisans, with engines, with fodder, and with water.

The safety and security of the nation depends more so than ever before on intelligence.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.

Anything can be justified by security.

Throwing money after security turns out to be a classic example of the law of diminishing marginal utility.

If you don’t know who they are, where they are, and what they’re planning, you can’t get them before they get you.

We face a wide array of threats, which means we have to have a wide array of capabilities.

It is the duty of the Defence Ministry and the forces to keep India safe.

Defense doesn't matter enough.

Thank God we're safe. What I anticipated on Sept. 11 was that we would be attacked many times between then and now, and we haven't been.

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

I wore bulletproof vests, and my bodyguards had the option of having bulletproof vests - I bought five sets.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.

As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.

For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism.

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

Why has an administration that talks so much about terrorism and homeland security demonstrated so little competence when it comes to securing the homeland?

We cannot put limitations on ourselves to protect ourselves. We have to put limitations on the enemy.